Hundreds of thousands of small and medium businesses are going down or already perished but Amazon and Walmart are setting records and welcome new lowest salary employers.

Back into horrible totalitarian socialist nightmare the flu epidemic looked as follows - you got high temperature, you called specific number, this day or early next day you got doctor visit at home (your local one who you usually know perfect), and after inspection doctor wrote down all prescription and also wrote document for you to legally be able not to go to work (medical leave). Doctor later visited you 1-3 times and closed all documents, you visited any building with lot of people only in case of severe complications.

Capitalists really did not like this thingy, too much people, too expensive and workers, as they think, are morons, they will always cheat to not go to work.

So, they started no indexing salaries, and as older people left and new one never appeared - they closed the visiting doctors places. In some regions managed to close 80%, in some 60-70%. At the same time they build lot of very dense new buildings without any additional doctors. So, for new areas it can be around 1/20-1/50 of actual requirement of doctors, but who cares as huge profits of selling tiny flats via credit system cloud all the vision.

So, with each seasonal flu they already forced most people to visit local polyclinic, wait many hours in huge mass gatherings, made it much harder and longer to get papers and require now head doctor to sign any medical leave papers (remember - workers are morons and enemies!). As result - now they had special number they can reach with official "flu" diagnosis, no more, all else must be uncertain "respiratory syndrome".

Here comes COVID, as they did not manage to get any training or easy to understand (for doctor) prescriptions and explanations - they managed to cause total collapse (from patient perspective) in October. Waiting time for ER reached 7 days, waiting time for doctor 4-10 days, waiting time to get PCR test 3-5 days (if you are notgoing to hospital right now!), and result of PCR can come in 2 weeks time. No one cares, no responsibility for anything. Huge crowds are everywhere in any polyclinic or hospital using public transport to get to the place, spreading virus as much as they can.

To keep system more or less afloat they nearly tripled medics salaries that managed to just keep them at their jobs, not to make it much better or get more people out of the blue. It also caused many doctors wanting to not service usual patients and go serving only COVID ones (as much more profitable).

Whole system started to process people with complications who did not get any medicine help for 8-12 days or who ate some stuff they saw on TV (do not worry local capitalists also advertised stuff that is costly and useless ala remdesivir in developed countries).

Interesting local poll with question - if you have caught and temperature above 39 degrees Celsius what you will do ?

• 1999 year answer - 92% - call for doctor visit and be home until I get better, as medical leave will pay it in full.
• 2019 year answer - 87% - go to work no matter that, as owner and manager repeatedly stated that they don't like any medical leave and I can lose my job even if under law it is unlawful.

The unexpected result in Scenarios 1 and 2 is that the global temperature keeps rising for centuries after man-made GHG emissions of are brought to zero. Even more surprising, at first glance, is the fact that the temperature keeps rising after the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has declined back to the pre-industrial level through absorption in the deep ocean, biomass and soil.

In both cases the explanation (in ESCIMO) rests in the joint action of albedo, carbon (both as CH4 and CO2) from melting permafrost, and water vapour in warm air—which together ensure that the temperature stays high even when the concentration of CO2 declines.

The planet gets darker: the role of albedo

As temperature rises, ice and snow are melted, making the planet darker. Between 2070 and 2300, for example, the average ocean albedo (in ESCIMO) declines from 0.080 to 0.067, and the surface albedo from 0.127 to 0.117, see Supplement Figure 15. As a result, more short-wave radiation is absorbed. In ESCIMO about 1.7 Wm−2—which is enough to trigger and drive significant change in the delicately balanced, global climate system.

Water vapour feedback

Water vapour exists in the atmosphere because of the balance between evaporation, which increases with temperature, and precipitation from the atmosphere, which also increases with temperature. H2O is not held in the atmosphere because of CO2, or any other GHG. This means that water vapour, and its warming effect, will not disappear when the CO2 concentration declines back to pre-industrial levels—as long as the temperature stays high enough.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75481-z

In 1980s lot of western researches with politicians invented new scientific genre - ecological terrorism papers.

First it had been ozon holes hoax.

Now it is horrible global warming we can't stop (but must all die anyway to save the Earth!).

Deutsche Bank argues that in a time of pervasive covid shutdowns, "those who can work from home (WFH) receive direct and indirect financial benefits and they should be taxed in order to smooth the transition process for those who have been suddenly displaced."

In other words, the argument goes that working from an office is somehow punitive, and since WFH during the pandemic leads to "many benefits" as a resulting "disconnecting themselves from face-to-face society" a 5% tax for each WFH day "would leave the average person no worse off than if they worked in the office." The bank calculates that such a tax could raise $49bn per year in the US, €20bn in Germany, and £7bn in the UK. "That can fund subsidies for the lowest-paid workers who usually cannot work from home."

Some will argue against the tax. They will say that engagement with the economy is a personal choice and they should not be penalised for making that decision. Yet, these people should remember that governments have always backsolved taxes to suit the social environment. Consider that in centuries past, when it was socially unpalatable in the UK to introduce an income tax, the government implemented a window tax. As society changed, the window tax was abolished and, eventually, an income tax was introduced. In the same way, as our current society moves towards a state of ‘human disconnection’, our tax system must move with it.

Nice. I am personally moving toward disconnection with imbecile clerks and corporate drones, we really need to throw them out.

I am sure they already working on oxygen tax (I remember Greta saying something on it) and unhealthy food (meat and such things) tax (EU and Mordor already discussed this in parlaments)